Los Angeles County Museum of Art 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles California 90036 Periodicals |VOLUME 57 ISSUE 9 September 2018 |Member calendar CoNNECT
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Fantasies and Fairy tales west of modernism: California Creatures of THE Earth, Sea, and Sky: John Gerrard: Solar Reserve Opens September 8 Graphic Design, 1975–95 Painting the Panamanian Cosmos Through September 3 Ahmanson Building Member Preview: September 29 Through September 3 Resnick Lawn Opens September 30 Ahmanson Building Ahmanson Building
In the Fields of Empty Days: The Chiaroscuro Woodcut A Universal History of Infamy: Shahn, Mooney, and the Apotheosis The Intersection of Past in Renaissance Italy Those of This America of American Labor and Present in Iranian Art Through September 16 Through October 6 Through November 25 Through September 9 Resnick Pavilion Charles White Elementary School Resnick Pavilion BCAM MacArthur Park | 2401 Wilshire Blvd.
Decoding Mimbres Painting: Passing through the Underworld: Mariana Yampolsky: Photographs Hidden Narratives: Recent Ancient Ceramics of the Egyptian Art from the Los Angeles from the Los Angeles County Museum Acquisitions of Postwar Art American Southwest County Museum of Art of Art Through January 6, 2019 Through December 2 Through December 8 Through December 8 Ahmanson Building Resnick Pavilion Vincent Price Art Museum Vincent Price Art Museum Monterey Park | 1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez Monterey Park | 1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez
Balloon Monkey (Orange) Rauschenberg: In and About L.A. 3D: Double Vision Metropolis II Through January 6, 2019 Through February 10, 2019 Through March 31, 2019 Ongoing L.A. Times Central Court Resnick Pavilion Art of the Americas Building BCAM
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MEMBERS ONLY LACMA LOCAL 01 02 Local: Craft City and Cosmos: 11 am | Craft and Folk Art Museum The Arts of Teotihuacan TALKS & COURSES RSVP required; invitation 12 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza sent via email Andell Family Sundays: Learn more at lacma.org/local TOURS Art of the Pacific Islands The Chiaroscuro Woodcut 12:30 pm | Zev Yaroslavsky Plaza FILM in Renaissance Italy Shahn, Mooney, and the 1 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza Apotheosis of American Labor MUSIC Decoding Mimbres Painting: 1 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza Ancient Ceramics of Rauschenberg: In and About L.A. FAMILIES the American Southwest 1:30 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza 1:30 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza Sundays Live: Concord Trio EVENTS To Rome and Back: Individualism 6 pm | Bing Theater and Authority in Art, 1500–1800 EXHIBITIONS 2 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza Latin Sounds: Ticket prices for Tuesday Matinees: Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca $2 LACMA members, seniors 5 pm | Hancock Park (65+), and children 17 and under; $4 general public Tickets: lacma.org or 323 857-6010 Unless otherwise noted, all events are free, and no reservations are required.
03 04 06 07 08 09 CLOSING: Creatures of the Tuesday Matinee: Silkwood The Chiaroscuro Woodcut Shahn, Mooney, and the OPENING: Fantasies CLOSING: In the Fields of Empty Earth, Sea, and Sky: Painting 1 pm | Bing Theater in Renaissance Italy Apotheosis of American Labor and Fairy Tales Days: The Intersection of Past the Panamanian Cosmos 1 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza 1 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza and Present in Iranian Art The Chiaroscuro Woodcut The Chiaroscuro Woodcut CLOSING: John Gerrard: in Renaissance Italy Rauschenberg: In and About L.A. Story Time in the Galleries in Renaissance Italy Andell Family Sundays: Solar Reserve 1 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza 1:30 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza 2 pm | Boone Children’s Gallery 1 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza Art of the Pacific Islands 12:30 pm | Zev Yaroslavsky Plaza To Rome and Back: Individualism To Rome and Back: Individualism To Rome and Back: Individualism and Authority in Art, 1500–1800 and Authority in Art, 1500–1800 and Authority in Art, 1500–1800 Shahn, Mooney, and the 2 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza 3 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza 2 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza Apotheosis of American Labor 1 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza Jazz at LACMA: 10th Annual L.A. Jazz Treasure Award: Rauschenberg: In and About L.A. Barbara Morrison 1:30 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza 6 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza Sundays Live: Lyris Quartet 6 pm | Bing Theater
10 11 13 14 15 16 Tuesday Matinee: Mask Gallery Tour: The Art of Shahn, Mooney, and the Local: 3D CLOSING: The Chiaroscuro 1 pm | Bing Theater Looking—To Rome and Back Apotheosis of American Labor 10 am | L.A. Times Central Court Woodcut in Renaissance Italy 12:30 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza 1 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza RSVP required; invitation Andell Family Sundays: The Chiaroscuro Woodcut sent via email Art of the Pacific Islands in Renaissance Italy The Chiaroscuro Woodcut Story Time in the Galleries Learn more at lacma.org/local 1 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza in Renaissance Italy 2 pm | Boone Children’s Gallery 12:30 pm | Zev Yaroslavsky Plaza 1 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza The Chiaroscuro Woodcut To Rome and Back: Individualism To Rome and Back: Individualism Shahn, Mooney, and the in Renaissance Italy Apotheosis of American Labor and Authority in Art, 1500–1800 Rauschenberg: In and About L.A. and Authority in Art, 1500–1800 1 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza 2 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza 1:30 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza 3 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza 1 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza Decoding Mimbres Painting: Jazz at LACMA: Theo Croker Rauschenberg: In and About L.A. Ancient Ceramics of 6 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza 1:30 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza the American Southwest 1:30 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza Sundays Live: Violinist Yueun Kim and Pianist Sung Chang Smallfoot 6 pm | Bing Theater 3:30 pm | Bing Theater Tickets: lacma.org
17 18 20 21 22 23 Mindful Monday: Cultivating Tuesday Matinee: Suspect Rauschenberg: In and About L.A. Shahn, Mooney, and the Gallery Course: Andell Family Sundays: Empathy and Connectedness 1 pm | Bing Theater 1:30 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza Apotheosis of American Labor Beginnings of Modern Art Art of the Pacific Islands 4 pm | Ahmanson Building 1 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza 8:30 am | Brown Auditorium 12:30 pm | Zev Yaroslavsky Plaza Personal Connections Meditation & Art Free, reservations required Tickets: lacma.org 1 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza 4 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza Story Time in the Galleries Film Premiere: Tickets: lacma.org Free, tickets required 2 pm | Boone Children’s Gallery To Rome and Back: Individualism Beneath the Hagia Sophia Art + Music: Member Monday Tickets: lacma.org and Authority in Art, 1500–1800 1 pm | Bing Theater Vijay Iyer & Friends: Activations To Rome and Back: Individualism Check out: 3D: Double Vision, 2 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza To Rome and Back: Individualism 7:30 pm | Ahmanson Building and Authority in Art, 1500–1800 Shahn, Mooney, and the Hidden Narratives, and Authority in Art, 1500–1800 Tickets: lacma.org 3 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza A Million Little Things Apotheosis of American Labor and Art of the Pacific. 2 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza 7:30 pm | Bing Theater 1 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza 6–9 pm | Art of the Americas Jazz at LACMA: Trane Stories Tickets: lacma.org Building and Ahmanson Building 6 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza Rauschenberg: In and About L.A. 1:30 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza Sundays Live: LA Symphonic Winds 6 pm | Bing Theater 24 25 27 28 29 30 Film screening: Tuesday Matinee: Moonstruck Rauschenberg: In and About L.A. Shahn, Mooney, and the Teresita de la Torre in Conversation OPENING: West of Modernism: Artist Stanya Kahn's 1 pm | Bing Theater 1:30 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza Apotheosis of American Labor with Amy Sánchez and Misael Diaz California Graphic Design, Stand in the Stream 1 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza 1:30 pm | Charles White Elementary 1975–1995 To Rome and Back: Individualism The Old Man & The Gun 7:30 pm | Bing Theater School and Authority in Art, 1500–1800 8 pm | Bing Theater Story Time in the Galleries Andell Family Sundays: 2 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza Tickets: lacma.org 2 pm | Boone Children’s Gallery Free Screening and Discussion: Art of the Pacific Islands Native America, Episode 4: 12:30 pm | Zev Yaroslavsky Plaza To Rome and Back: Individualism "New World Rising" and Authority in Art, 1500–1800 Shahn, Mooney, and the 2 pm | Bing Theater 3 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza Apotheosis of American Labor Artist David Antin: Sky Poems 1 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza Jazz at LACMA: Janis Mann 4 pm | Michael Heizer’s 6 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza Rauschenberg: In and About L.A. Levitated Mass 1:30 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza The Director’s Series: Michael Govan and Ai Weiwei Jazz at LACMA: 7:30 pm | Bing Theater Member Preview: Cellists Sarah Rommel Free, tickets required West of Modernism: California and Jonathan Dormand Tickets: lacma.org Graphic Design, 1975–1995 6 pm | Bing Theater
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Kaveh Golestan, Untitled (detail) from the series Az Sculptor’s Model, Egypt, Ptolemaic Period, possibly Chris Burden, Metropolis II (detail), 2010, courtesy image Credits Div o Dad, 1976, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, reign of Ptolemy II, c. 285–246 BCE, of the Nicolas Berggruen Charitable Foundation, PRODUCTION purchased with funds provided by Nina Ansary, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, William Randolph © Chris Burden/licensed by The Chris Burden Estate OVERLEAF (LEFT TO RIGHT, TOP TO BOTTOM) © Estate of Kaveh Golestan Hearst Collection and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Vol. 57, no. 9; Connect (ISSN 1551-0654) is published monthly Carl Otto Czeschka, Untitled (detail), c. 1905, by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Niccolò Vicentino, after Pordenone, Saturn (detail), Mariana Yampolsky, Cinco Danzantes de la Sierra de COMING SOON Los Angeles, CA 90036. Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, c. 1540s, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bequest of la Puebla (detail), 1996, Los Angeles County Museum Robert Rauschenberg, The 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, W. G. Russell Allen, 64.1110, photo © 2018 Museum of Art, gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, (detail) (1981–98), installation view, Robert Periodicals postage paid at Los Angeles, CA. Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, of Fine Arts, Boston D.R. © Mariana Yampolsky Cultural Foundation, Rauschenberg: A Retrospective, Guggenheim Bilbao LACMA is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. A.C. Mexico Museoa, 1998–99, photo Erika Barahona Ede and deaccession funds Hector Garcia, Niño en el vientre de concreto (detail), © 2018 Museum Associates dba Los Angeles County Museum of Art. © FMGB Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa All rights reserved. Unless otherwise noted, all photographs April Greiman and John Coy with Michael Cronan, 1952, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, purchased Lynn Hershman Leeson, Untitled (detail), c. 1966, © 2018 Museum Associates/LACMA. Note: All events are subject Linda Hinrichs, Michael Manwaring, Michael Vanderbyl, with funds provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Barry Sloane, Charles Atlas, MC⁹ (detail), 2012, Collection Walker to change. Check lacma.org for the latest information. and Eric Martin, AIGA California Design 2 (detail), and Susan Steinhauser and Daniel Greenberg, © Lynn Hershman Leeson Art Center; T. B. Walker Acquisition Fund, 2015, © Fundación María y Héctor García © Charles Atlas, photo by Gene Pittman, 1985, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Marc Treib Je Koons, Balloon Monkey (Orange), 2006–13, Muses Postmaster: Send address changes to Connect, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Collection, © April Greiman and John Coy Protest stamps for Mooney (detail), 1920–30s, Investment Holdings Limited, © Je Koons Membership Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Rare Book Collection, Lillian Goldman Law Library, BACK 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036. Textile Panel (Mola) (detail), last quarter of 20th Robert Rauschenberg, Los Angeles, California (detail), Yale Law School [Flickr/cc by 2.0] Dr. Joseph Jastrow, Experiments in Visual Perception century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of 1981, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Editor: Madeleine Heppermann (detail), c. 1905, Keystone-Mast Collection, California Lindy and Ellen Narver in memory of Grace Narver Bowl with Abstract Clusters of Datura Buds © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Graphic designer: Stefano Giustiniani, Los Hopper Museum of Photography, University of California, and Leaves, c. 850–1150, private collection John Gerrard, Solar Reserve (Tonopah, Nevada) 2014 Simone Forti, Striding Crawling (detail), 1975–78, Riverside, photo courtesy California Museum Printer: Clear Image Printing Inc. (detail), 2014, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Box LA, © 2017 Simone Forti, photography of Photography, University of California, Riverside Printing: 60lb Smooth Opaque O set on a Mitsubishi press purchased with funds provided by Leonardo DiCaprio, © 2018 Fredrik Nilsen, All Rights Reserved © John Gerrard, photo courtesy of Thomas Dane Questions or comments about Connect? Gallery, London and Simon Preston Gallery, New York Please email Chi-Young Kim at [email protected].